@ayoraavis: "120900Z 23008/18kt 9999 -RERA 2Sc018 7Sc050 10.3/6.3 QFF 995.4 (+1.8 in last 3 hours)=
Humidity: 76% (-4% in last hour)
Max 09-09: 14.2
Min 09-09: 9.3
Min 21-09: 9.6
Grass Min 18-09: 6.2
30cm Soil Temp: 8.8
Rain 09-09: 8.2 mm
November Rain (00-24): 32.2 mm
2010 Rain (00-24): 528.6 mm
Bright Sun yesterday 1.2 hours
State of Ground: Moist
Remarks: Very heavy rain on cold front 1300 yesterday max rate 96mm/hr. Now mostly cloudy with 
some blue sky breaks after patchy light rain.
Bracknell Weather at: <url>
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    @newsboy: "On Friday 12 Nov 2010 09:11, Roy Avis scribbled:
<quote>
Impossible! Or at least it is according to what I was taught at MOTS 
Stanmore in 1962. "Violent showers only occur in the Tropics so you must 
never report them here." One of many dubious "facts" we were taught back 
then.
Violent shower: > about 50mm per hour.
Graham"
    @bjburton: ""Roy Avis" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Hello Roy,
Very similar here, max rain rate 85 jameskatelyn@example.org. Max gust jameskatelyn@example.org.
Regards
Bernard Burton
Wokingham Berkshire.
Weather data and satellite images at:
<url>"
    @ayoraavis: ""Graham P Davis" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:<email_address>
<quote>
Well - of course, Graham! That's why I called it only Very Heavy Rain!
And just in case you thought I was crazy - Bernard had a similar max rate.
I think I was at Stanmore in 1963 - a very freezing-foggy November?
Still, thank's for reading my ob!
Roy 
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    @will: ""Roy Avis" <email_address> wrote in message 
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<quote>
Not so Graham. That's rather an outdated view now I'm afraid. There are many 
recent examples of extreme rainfalls in UK with very high rates. Even here I 
record over 100mm/h not rarely and sometimes on line convection on cold 
fronts. You don't need much total column liquid water content to generate 
rates over 50mm/h. Circa 35-40mm will do it provided the rainfall efficiency 
process is high. E.g as at Uckfield on 4th August 2010.
Will"
    @newsboy: "On Friday 12 Nov 2010 11:40, Will Hand scribbled:
<quote>
You seem to be implying that I agreed with the MOTS teachings. I don't know 
how you came to that conclusion. As should have been clear from my reference 
to 'dubious "facts"', I suspected at the time that it was an "outdated view" 
and further nonsense we were taught during that Assistants' course steadily 
firmed up that belief. 
The highest rate I've seen was about 35 years ago at Wattisham when the rate 
was about 35 mm/hr - judging by the three clicks per minute on the rainfall 
"clickometer". However, I didn't rate the event very highly as I'd seen much 
worse during the previous thirty years. There was another event at Wattisham 
which was far heavier. I didn't discover what the rate was but the assistant 
said that the noise from the clickometer sounded "like a machine gun." At 
0.2mm a click, that must have been some rate! Visibility during the event 
fell to 200m and water was lying what seemed a couple of inches deep on the 
crown of a well-cambered road up to the camp. On arrival at the control 
tower, my car stalled through water having bounced up from the road into the 
engine. 
Graham Davis, Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. [Chic 
Murray(1919-1985)]"
    @newsboy: "On Friday 12 Nov 2010 11:50, Norman scribbled:
<quote>
My course was the full 9 weeks, beginning 20th August. That would mean I 
should have finished on the 12th October so I guess your course followed 
straight on from mine. I'd only started work on 30th July at Wyton, coming 
straight from school, so I was pretty wet behind the ears. However, even 
then I had doubts about what I was being taught and that firmed up as I 
learnt from others and gained experience for myself.
One silly example of a disagreement I had with the instructor was over the 
Beaufort letter "u" (ugly, threatening sky). Again, this was something we 
were told never to use as "how can you be threatened by the sky?" I thoought 
back to a few years earlier when I'd seen a powerful-looking tornado 
drifting past. I thought that if I'd been in the way of it I might have felt 
threatened.  ;-) 
Graham Davis, Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. [Chic 
Murray(1919-1985)]"
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